hemiplegian.
/hɛmɪˈpliːdʒɪə/ Pathology.
Paralysis of one side of the body; usually caused by a lesion in the opposite side of the brain.
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mollification?a1425
hemiplexy1576
paraplegia1583
dead palsy?1594
hemiplegia1600
sideration1612
astrobolism1651
paresis1668
hemiplegy1755
general paralysis1820
refixation1825
Pott's disease1827
pamplegia1842
pamplegy1857
crossed palsy1858
transverse palsy1858
neuroparalysis1859
general paresis1862
athetosis1871
monoplegia1876
spastic paralysis1877
Landry's paralysis1882
Little's disease1884
cerebral palsy1889
paraparesis1890
hemiparesis1893
Pott's paraplegia1895
sleep-palsy1896
quadriplegia1897
pressure paralysis1899
Bell's palsy1904
taboparesis1910
tetraplegia1911
tick paralysis1914
quadriparesis1948
Landry–Guillain–Barré syndrome1957
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xli. 1105 The Consull..fell downe in a fit of Apoplexie: which turned into an Hemiplegia or dead palsey all the one side of his bodie.
1751 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Med. Precepts ii. 67 On dissection of the bodies of apoplectiks, who had been seized with an hemiplegia, he always found the cause of the disease in the opposite side of the brain.
1754 Chesterfield in World No. 92. ⁋5 Though they have not yet lost one half of themselves by a hemiplegia.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 291 In old Hemiplegias the epidermis is often dry, rough, and scaly.
Derivatives
hemiˈplegiac adj. and n. (a) adj. affected with or subject to hemiplegia; (b) n. one so affected.
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paraplectic1661
hemiplegiac1802
hemiplegic1822
paraplegic1822
hemiplegian1842
athetoid1875
apraxic1892
monoplegic1896
quadriplegic1897
athetotic1898
spastic1903
tetraplegic1911
quadriparetic1956
cerebral-palsied1961
Tasered1976
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > types of > person
general paralytica1398
hemiplegiac1802
paretic1881
hemiplegic1890
paraplegic1890
tetraplegic1911
quadriplegic1948
para1961
quad1974
1802 W. Heberden, Jr. tr. W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. lxix. 352 In one hemiplegiac the motion of the parts began to return.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 805/1 In hemiplegiac subjects.
hemiˈplegian adj. = hemiplegiac adj. and n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > types of
paraplectic1661
hemiplegiac1802
hemiplegic1822
paraplegic1822
hemiplegian1842
athetoid1875
apraxic1892
monoplegic1896
quadriplegic1897
athetotic1898
spastic1903
tetraplegic1911
quadriparetic1956
cerebral-palsied1961
Tasered1976
1842 S. Smith Lett. Locking in on Railways in Wks. (1859) II. 324/1 Most absurd..is this hemiplegian law—an act..to protect one side of the body and not the other.
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